Feminine
zeug
Meaning
- (feminine) sow (female pig)
- (derogatory, feminine, figuratively) bitch, cow, blatant term of abuse for a 'beastly' human female
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/zøːx/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch soge, suege, from Old Dutch *soga, from Proto-West Germanic *sugu. The regular form in Middle Dutch was soge with a back vowel, with fronted suege occurring only in the western dialects. The original form is still found dialectally as zoog.
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